Preparing for the Confident Caring Assessment

Read the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2018) The Code

One of the best tips for your Confident Caring Assessment is to make sure you understand what the test is looking for. Read The Code and watch the short videos to understand the principles and themes in the assessment. Those principles and themes are detailed below: 

• prioritising people 
• practising effectively 
• preserving safety 
• promoting professionalism and trust 

Remember The Main Themes of The Code (2018) 

When you answer Confident Caring questions, you need to make sure you pick answers that relate to the key traits of a good nurse/ midwife, which include honesty and integrity, safety, and team-working. 

Think of the qualities of a good nurse/ midwife 

The key for Confident Caring Assessment is that you should not choose the answer that closely matches what you would personally do. You need to think about the qualities of a good nurse/ midwife and choose the answer that best matches those.

Related scenario 

Remember to rate the response, not the scenario. It is important that you focus on how appropriate or important the response to the scenario is, rather than the scenario itself. The question will really test how well you respond even when something has gone wrong. You will be asked to choose your response from three options. The three options will be as follows (but not always in this order!): 

1. a very appropriate thing to do 

2. appropriate, but not ideal 

3. inappropriate, but not necessarily poor or dangerous practice 

Remember that the scenario will ask you to think about what your role would be as a student nurse/ midwife. Your response should relate to how you act within that role.